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Political systems

The organisation and interaction of the members that make up the governing power of a social community or state.

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transatlantic

Political systems; Slavery

Across the Atlantic Ocean. Concerning countries on both sides of the Atlantic

transatlantic slave trade

Political systems; Slavery

A Eurocentric term used to describe the selling of Africans as chattel across the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and the Americas.

transatlantic slavery

Political systems; Slavery

The institution that kept people as property, and submissive to work under the domination of others; the system of slavery that incorporates the trade of enslaved Africans, the ...

treaty

Political systems; Slavery

Formally ratified agreement between political groups or states.

triangular trade

Political systems; Slavery

The name often given to the transatlantic slave trade; describes the three sides to the route the slave ships took from Europe to West Africa, then to the Caribbean and the ...

unassimilated

Political systems; Slavery

Failed to make or become similar to others; retaining distinctive differences.

underground railroad

Political systems; Slavery

A means of escape for thousands of enslaved people from the southern United States to the north and Canada operating from the late 1700s to 1862; it was called the Underground ...